covenanter

• "It was better than the law," he said, "because if any one came upon them for taxes they had only to go to a brother-covenanter, and be he a peer or parliament-man, he was bound to support them." —  The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
• Whereas he goes about looking as sober as a covenanter that expected the day of judgment to-morrow and knew he was predestinated for one O' the goats. —  Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.
• Middleton, like the Marquis of Montrose, had been at one time a covenanter. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• He was cousin of Burnet, and son of an eminent covenanter who had, soon after the —  The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
• = Mause = (_Old_), mother of Cuddie Headrigg, and a covenanter. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

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